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  • They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

    Funny   Money   Work  
  • The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.

  • I still am amazed that people would never buy a car if they were told it gets 75 miles to the gallon - they're absolutely clear on what's a scam. But when it comes to their health they will immediately fall for somebody telling them, "Take this pill and you'll live to be a hundred years old." There's something about medicine that allows us to fall for stupid sales pitches more easily.

    Pain   Stupid   Fall  
  • My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.

    Dad   Kids   Car  
    "St Vincent: soundtrack of my life". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.
  • There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.

  • I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes and the lack of direct human discourse.

    "Close Range: Wyoming Stories". Book by Annie Proulx, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 1999.
  • Donald Trump is pulling off a world-class scam here. I mean, he's telling people he's all these things that he's never been his entire life. He says he's fighting for the little guy, the working class. He has spent his entire business career sticking it to working people.

    Mean   Fighting   Class  
    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier.

    Heart   Wish   Today  
  • Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.

    Play   Feminism   Scams  
  • The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.

    Phones   Games   Age  
    Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.213, Spiegel & Grau
  • I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me.

    Ideas   Scary   Forever  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.

    Heart   Scams   Punters  
  • The Gong Show was the greatest scam of all time. It was simple: We wanted to do a talent show. There weren't any venues for acts back then. We were gonna have a show of new, fresh, good acts. But we couldn't find any; they were all lousy. So rather than throw away the idea, I said, "Let's reverse it. Let's do lousy acts." Now, is that a scam? I'm telling you.

    Simple   Ideas   Scams  
  • I think one of the biggest scams in law enforcement is the monitor.

  • I tried the religion scam in Miami, so I know how hard that gig is. But, if you can get it to work, starting your own religion is a license to print money.

    Scams   Gigs   Miami  
    "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.
  • As I've said before, free money scams are a problem.

  • Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.

    Mom   Jobs   Dad  
  • We have to be very cautious not to accept the scam of polarization we see in the media. It is not in fact between secularists and Islamists, it is a battle within the Islamic reference.

    Islamic   Media   Battle  
    "'You Want My Reaction? You Get My Silence'". Interview with Lars Mensel and Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.
  • The UID is a corporate scam which funnels billions of dollars into the IT sector

  • I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam: one nacho, underpants with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.

    Wine   Snakes   Owl  
  • I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

  • If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.

    Marketing   Scams   Ifs  
    Comment on reddit, www.reddit.com. November 29, 2008.
  • The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it.

    Wwe   Scams  
  • We need a Skilled India but Congress has created a Scam India in the last 10 years.

    Years   India   Needs  
  • It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.

  • Donald Trump is not a Republican. Donald Trump is not a conservative. Donald Trump is trying to pull off the biggest scam in American political history, basically a con job, where he's trying to take over the Republican Party by telling people he's someone who he is not.

    Jobs   Party   People  
    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

    Clever   Men   Fake  
    Brandon Sanderson (2012). “The Emperor's Soul”, p.77, Tachyon Publications
  • There's people trying to tell me what to do, but I'm not like some marketing scam.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

  • Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

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